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National Geographic Kids World Atlas by National Geographic
It's Your Planet!
It's your only home. Here are 117 pages of mas, more than 200 color photographs, 234 fact boxes, 195 flags (one for each country, in case you're counting), and 49 locator gloves to guide your way.
Learn It!
Can you name 531 ocean features? You can! Find them using our 3821 plane-name index. This index works with map bingo grids to help you easily navigate through the 8 color-coded continents and 4 ocean floor maps.
Love It!
Have fun with the 47 illustrated graphics and charts and 60 different map symbols-- tools to help you explore. Fall in love with the mother tiger and her cub on page 107 and feel compassion for the refugees of Superstorm Sandy on page 30.
Explore It!
"Wow, I didn't know that!" is what you'll say as you explore our 209 pages. But the NG Kids World Atlas takes you deeper. Find a new games section in the back of the book and digital scanners that bring you photos, videos, and games.
(From back cover of book.)
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Get Real
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Get Real by Mara Rockliff
GET REAL has been selected as an Honor Book in the Nonfiction category for the 2011 Green Earth Book Award.
Get Real by Mara Rockliff
Can you change the world with your wallet?
You already do.
In this frank, teen-friendly manifesto, Mara Rockliff reveals what you’re really buying when you spend your money on a cell phone, a cheap t-shirt, or fast food—and shows the way to better choices, both for people and the planet.
Start seeing the world for real, and discover how you can make a difference. You’ve got buying power—now let’s see you change the world for good!
You already do.
In this frank, teen-friendly manifesto, Mara Rockliff reveals what you’re really buying when you spend your money on a cell phone, a cheap t-shirt, or fast food—and shows the way to better choices, both for people and the planet.
Start seeing the world for real, and discover how you can make a difference. You’ve got buying power—now let’s see you change the world for good!
(From Amazon.com product listing.)
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Ender's Game
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Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is.
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
(From Amazon.com product listing.)
Ender's Game By Orson Scott Card
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training.
Ender's skills make him a leader in school and respected in the Battle Room, where children play at mock battles in zero gravity. Yet growing up in an artificial community of young soldiers, Ender suffers greatly from isolation, rivalry from his peers, pressure from the adult teachers, and an unsettling fear of the alien invaders. His psychological battles include loneliness, fear that he is becoming like the cruel brother he remembers, and fanning the flames of devotion to his beloved sister.
Is Ender the general Earth needs? But Ender is not the only result of the genetic experiments. The war with the Buggers has been raging for a hundred years, and the quest for the perfect general has been underway for almost as long. Ender's two older siblings are every bit as unusual as he is, but in very different ways. Between the three of them lie the abilities to remake a world. If the world survives, that is.
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
(From Amazon.com product listing.)
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Every Day on Earth
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Every Day on Earth by Steve Murrie and Matthew Murrie
Discover all of the amazing things that can happen around the world in just one day!
You already know all of the amazing things that can happen in just one minute on Earth, so think of what could happen in a whole day! Your taste bud cells are replaced at a rate of 50,000 a day. Almost 40,000 trees are cut down every day just to make paper bags. And a mayfly lives its entire life in a single day. This book is full of fun facts about space, technology, pop culture, food, animals, sports, the human body, and more! (From Amazon.com product listing.)
Every Day on Earth by Steve Murrie and Matthew Murrie
Discover all of the amazing things that can happen around the world in just one day!
You already know all of the amazing things that can happen in just one minute on Earth, so think of what could happen in a whole day! Your taste bud cells are replaced at a rate of 50,000 a day. Almost 40,000 trees are cut down every day just to make paper bags. And a mayfly lives its entire life in a single day. This book is full of fun facts about space, technology, pop culture, food, animals, sports, the human body, and more! (From Amazon.com product listing.)
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